Tag: Sudan
South Sudan celebrates its independence by pushing for peace
South Sudan celebrated the 12th anniversary of its independence, proclaimed in euphoria on July 9, 2011 after decades of civil war with the Khartoum regime. But the youngest country in…
Air raids, attacks and looting… Sudan is “on the brink of an all-out civil war”
The alert is given by the UN. This Sunday, July 9, the institution warned that Sudan was “on the verge of a total civil war potentially destabilizing for the entire…
UN: Sudan drifting into civil war – cease-fires broken again and again
Sudan’s slide into chaos brings instability to the entire region of Northeast Africa. The air strike on Omdurman has claimed the lives of at least 22 people. The struggle for…
Faced with the situation in Sudan and South Sudan, what role for the ICRC?
The Head of Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Pierre Dorbes ends his mission in mid-July in South Sudan. Arrived two years ago in this country…
where is Hemedti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces?
The head of the rapid support forces (FSR), General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo known as Hemedti, has not appeared in public for more than 40 days. This absence, however, raises questions…
in Darfur, “the population is dying of starvation in absolute oblivion”, alarms an NGO
As fighting continues to rock Sudan, Solidarités International was the first NGO to enter West Darfur and the town of el-Geneina last week. The inhabitants of this city have paid…
Sudan: in the state of North Darfur, a local initiative to establish peace
Since the beginning of the war, it is in Darfur, a vast region like France where a quarter of the Sudanese live, that the violence has been the most intense.…
Passports destroyed by the French embassy in Sudan: justice seized again
A Sudanese refugee had seized French justice after the destruction of her daughters’ passports during the evacuation of the French embassy in Khartoum last April. The administrative court of Nantes…
fierce fighting in Khartoum, the two enemy generals speak out for Eid
Fighting raged Tuesday June 27 in Khartoum between the paramilitaries who threaten to take the city and the army which now calls on all young people in Sudan to join…
PM calls for help to deal with influx of Sudanese refugees
In Chad, the government is seeking support and assistance from technical and financial partners to enable it to deal with the influx of Sudanese refugees into its territory. The Prime…